why is this an issue? of someone wants to gamble their money away let them. Jesus for a county that constantly reminds eveyone we have freedom, we sure have a lot of trivial laws and rules. let em play.﻿

If you bother to pause your DVR & read the fine print it says “this ad does not reflect the average winnings, most are usually $22.00” . Bwhahaha. That’s assuming the people interest in the product have a dvr.﻿

WTF. We should be able to gamble if we want to. Online Poker and Daily Fantasy should be legal in the USA. Canada has online Poker and it’s a very liberal country. This is the first time I am disappointed by John Oliver. This segment looks like a Republican agenda which I am shocked by.﻿

This whole segment doesn’t make any sense. It is gambling because only the top 1% (+ a few really lucky) have a real chance of winning? With the same reason one could say the US are not a democracy because 1% determine who will win the next elections. Wait ..﻿

I don’t get it. If it’s not a game of skill then how come only 1.3% of people win? If according to Joe Namath I bet something and win something does that mean arcade token games that have ticket payouts gambling? If so then I’ve been gambling since I was three arrest me now Joe. If I enter a COD tournament with 50 dollar buy in and chance at 500 prize, that’s a game of skill. If I put a 50 dollar buy in for poker and could win 500 that’s a game of chance? Can someone explain that shit to me?﻿

I play FanDuel, and I do think that it is a form of gambling. But what I don’t agree with is for someone to tell me how to spend my money. I like to play fantasy sports and if I can gamble at the same time, then why not? I could care less about how the government feels about it. This is just another attempt of the government to try to speak for me. Screw that. I understand that I am gambling and that I can lose my money. By that, I am not being robbed of anything. I hope that nothing happens to FanDuel or Draftkings.﻿

Things masquerading as gambling aren’t really new though. If you really think about it, a lot of those places that dispense tickets for kids are basically gambling for children. I think they just get around it because most of the games at least give you one ticket that you can cash in for candy, but let’s be real here. Your kid wants the big prize at the top of the shelf that costs thousands of tickets and chances are, you are not coming back to this location any time soon and your kid wants to put hundreds of dollars into the machines to try to rack up that many tickets, but they won’t. Every time they lose or they don’t make enough, they will come back and keep asking you for money to play more.

This was also my childhood and we used to go to some of these places multiple times, but as we got older we didn’t go as often anymore and then those places closed so then we had a pile of tickets at home that were then useless. Again, gambling for children.﻿

John, you’re partially right, but shut up will you! I’m a numbers nerd and sports betting is my main source of income. Sure, the average idiot who bets money on sports has no chance, but they don’t have to join do they? I’d argue that DFS leagues are at least more just than something like the Lottery, a game where people are literally just throwing their money away indiscriminately.﻿

Daily Fantasy is gambling, but gambling should be legal anyways, what’s the difference between me getting online to play or driving down the road to the local Indian casino? (and yes i can wear sweatpants to do both)

Also John makes it sound like if you play one of these games you are totally fucked, when in reality anyone can play these games and make a modest amount of winnings, just like if you walk into a casino you can walk out with a few hundred bucks and you can lose money, but that’s part of the game and if you can’t handle it don’t gamble. If your argument for prohibition is that some people can’t handle their shit then we should outlaw alcohol and tobacco because clearly some people can’t handle that either. Also sports betting has been happening in vegas and online for years now and sports is still competitive so stfu about sports betting﻿

I love this show and agree that it is gambling BUT that does not mean it should be illegal.

I believe it should be allowed BUT I will admit, I also believe sports gambling should be legal completely as well. People should be allowed to do what they want with their money and if it is in the open, those who have addictions can get help easier.

So I believe these two are just caught in a bigger issue of sports gambling rather than being so horrible themselves.﻿

Okay, two things. First off, the ending of this bit was better than the entire expose. Second, what was the point of this expose? We just went from “prison re-entry” to “fuck jocks”. Breaking down this down even further, we reach several additional points – number one, gambling shouldn’t be illegal in the first place, it’s a vice law, and all vice laws are just bitter old fucks mouthing off about jazz music or whatever; number two, classifying any skill-based game as gambling just because you win money (card games, number puzzles, mahjong, etc) is just being a whiny little bitch because you’re not very good at it; number three, John, we’re waiting for you do to *something* with the fucking horrible haircut, anything at all really, please John, shave the sides and spike the top or something; and number four, if playing a game so that you win money is gambling then all sports and games of all kinds need to be counted as gambling. Really, I don’t understand where this show is going anymore. It seems like ever since the LGBT video, the show has been less and less about in-depth expose coverage about lesser known subjects of great importance and instead more and more about whatever the fuck is trending or popular at the time. Ignoring the politics of certain segments, and whether or not people agree or disagree with them, the show has adapted a sort of “we’re right you’re wrong” mentality towards every segment that it does while simultaneously condemning people for adapting a sort of “we’re right you’re wrong” mentality. I don’t know what is going on, but whatever it was that you gave your writing staff for the first season, you need to give it to them again.﻿

Okay, I’ve got a question for John Oliver and anyone else that thinks poker and fantasy sports are gambling: how are they any different from investing in the stock market?

All of them are matters of trying to have as much information as possible with varying degrees of luck. Hell, you could say all of life is like this. Most of life’s major events (what school you go to, who you marry, what job you get, who your parents are) are largely determined by luck, no matter how distasteful you find that fact. Should we just make living illegal then?﻿

We should draw a distinction between a game where everyone loses in the long run and you’re attempting to beat the odds (lottery, blackjack, keno, slots, etc) and games where it is possible to have an edge if you hone your skills (poker, fantasy sports, day trading, etc).﻿